19 Oct
2008
19 Oct
'08
5:22 p.m.
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:35:49 -0300 Jorge Arellano Cid <jcid@dillo.org> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 06:22:59PM +0300, Tomas R wrote: > > > > First of all would like to thank you for this great little web > > browser. You are doing a really good job. Keep it up! :) > > :) > > I'd like to know why you consider it great, > and what you use it for. > It starts instantly, loads pages also pretty fast, has tabs, anti-aliasing, persistent cookies, ssl, smooth scrolling, unicode & many other encoding support, bug meter, nice download manager and most importantly NO stupid flash & other ads. Even currently I am pretty used to links-hacked, but that might change soon :) Compared to dillo2, links-hacked still uses less resources, has handy one button keyboard shortcuts for most things, very basic javascript support and frame support, but its grey background is kinda depressing, you have to right click on a link to some download and choose "download link" to save it, sometimes you have to click twice on a link for it to start loading it, manually refresh pages and jumping through form fields with <tab> key doesn't work. > > [...] > > 2) With the latest dillo2 version (I think this bug was introduced > > only recently, as I tested dillo2 from cvs not so long ago & it > > wasn't present) the menu is "teared off" when pressed. Here is a > > screenshot: > > http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/5211/dillomenuxu9.png > > and dillorc I use: > > http://pastebin.com/f42244f75 > > Not a bug but a feature! > > The detached menu allows for two things: > > 1.- Popup menu working with Alt-F shortcut even when the "File" > item is hidden. > 2.- Simpler code and improved panel configuraion flexibility. Even from dev's perspective it might seem as a feature but from user's - it's an ugly bug. > > 3) What happened to frame support? dillo 0.8.6 was able to display > > them without any problems. > > Frame support never was inside official dillo. > It may be added in the near future, provided an interested > developer commits to help with it. > > (most probably we'll be more focused on CSS, and bug fixes). Couldn't you just copy some code from the patch used with old dillo? Patched source here -> http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/dillo . > > 3) Both history & bookmarks could be saved in sqlite db. > > We aim to be light, fast and low on dependencies. > You can easily get dillo bookmarks from ~/.dillo/bm.txt, > it's a text file that mainly has lines like this: > > <section> <URL> <TITLE> Sqlite is lightweight, used by many browsers & no additional dependencies are required after the source is compiled. > > 6) When closing dillo with multiple tabs open, it always asks if I > > really want to do that. There could be an option "Don't ask again" > > like in other browsers. > > Surprising! ??? > > 8) Also I am really missing "Copy current URL location" which is > > present in links-hacked right-click menu. Maybe this could be added > > to dillo too? > > Yes, it may be handy. > Do you use it to drop the URL into a full blown browser? No, to copy the link to some forum message or e-mail. > BTW, please bear in mind that we need more manpower (i.e. > developers). Currently our current plans are more than enough > workload. Now, if some handy suggestions (like some of these) are > easy to implement, we'd be glad to help. > I understand. Hope someday in the future to send you some patches. Here are few more suggestions that might be useful: 9) Currently html bug window takes whole screen - I think the old behaviour when it was shown in a small window is better. 10) Because of the lack of CSS support, many text fields a rendered unusable (i.e. http://versme.net/blog/?p=618 or http://www.klubas.lt/tv/article.php?id=18837168 ). Resizable text areas feature would be pretty handy. 11) tabs could be extended to the whole screen width - that way more information would be displayed and selecting the needed tab with mouse would be easier. Here is a screenshot showing this behavior in unofficial dillo version: http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/5195/dillotabs2uj9.png -- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. - A. Bierce